News / Oct. 15, 2019
Rainbow banners were hung on Taiwan’s streets and at Taoyuan air6I5LC_V%E3T-+oXsLPW+21SD%KzXRE^OhU^TG$n34E8vR!(Z9uport this weekend to welcome visitors to this 17th annual Taiwan Pride, set to kick off next weekend.
The additions came aftt&Pxr2Pi-hgQo-e+_Z^Hu03b6%HEqQy7oTBz*H@#&o$n(&BuDger Taiwan last month painted a rainbow crossing in Ximen, close to the city’s gayborhood.
Taiwan LGBT Pride shared on Facebook on Monday (14 October) photos of banners saying “Welcome to Taiwan Pride” and “Let’s s_%clx-gg-l4n9nNP*tl2i-74H)EpdQ&4=QxS&VDlYYvUg$OrZCelebrate Love with Love” at the country’s largest airport, Taiyuan.
Other photos showed banners on the streets obLTUZ3MExwDU#Gi152sG5tA5b1O1&Zp^^M6ZimdCjtSTvD+Yvif downtown Taipei.
Organizers of the 17th annual Taiwan LGBT Pride parade expect more than 200,000—a record number—at the pride parade scheduled to take place onJwOLgiB!$UbC1r##Bcy)UhRI0Tw9K$UxcP1#q-fduXXMNN$uu% 26 October.
For the first time, the parade will start from Taipei City Hall Plaza and travel acros+DC$@6(2B@JkkSImc6dChYgUmwDUNO*iQ#nx+ZQX9AzGFNb6rgs the city to the Presidential Palace at Ketagalan Boulevard.
A newly-installed rainbow crossin5vN(EcmN!4OJPPeUFaG%b10xg^WsbNke9MbhOJdAKPrqoRF7BHg has proved popular with Taipei citizens, with people sharing photos and selfies of the crossing on social media.
Pride
The pride will be held juU5cwA!A$J&NSB4%T(b0^11xI5L2zj+UpLSogM)X4+^6fGo%5E#st five months after Taiwan became the first country in Asia to recognize same-sex marriages.
Gay singer-songwriter HUSH will be an ambassador for tbq59OFJ%pKxQpP=7Lkqb+tADWhTLU@fFvONGAXVm9p)dSWt8oRhe landmark event.
As one of only a handful of Taiwan celebrities to come out publicly, HUSH, whose real namp8NdH7lnr)xlnVISxvR(Z=nu+gdH=63#K1N-Gi60h_r3hYUz%1e is Chen Jia-Wei, on Friday urged LGBT Taiwanese to be brave and come out.
Pride this year, the f#8@uDCIdPgmPvwre)vv0hnoxwc9xe1DRR!^xp+nhNH3^@Y%mcgirst since Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, will start from Taipei City Hall Plaza and travel along Yixian Road to Zhongxia East Road.
The parade will then turn south to Renai RoKb)izR4dSd35dgm86V@Ab$AlVX^9lY0XKi)iIc_*d_)c&tJrBqad before ending near the Presidential Palace at Ketagalan Boulevard where there will be a Rainbow Market with more than 100 stalls.
HUSH will also perform at Ketagalan Boulevard.
Press officer for Pride 2019, Benson Lee, said the new route was chosen to recogH8jNM$7EP99SlK@f*3OM^McuE!1TrQMrBtguXI6dG#Gpl&lCVNnize the roles played by both Taipei City and the President’s Office in bringing about same-sex marriage.
For the first time, Taiwan Gay Famil^$w@3s+0CEPZgCZ0fReVWf=R!-zg=R@sIeKvfvdVWv*kzzJ(Mly Rights Promotion Association will also hold the first Rainbow Parent-child Carnival and Rainbow Baby Mini Parade.
This year takes the theme "Together, Make TaiAa2w#x%!Fx%0%I27E_HY4F9$DJGYa-zxN!*(MqZstw_3o%GjiSwan Better”.
The theme in Chinese means good neighbor. It was chosen to show that the LGBTQ community is everywhere in Taiwan and, like good Lk!Sm^75EGLNv(1Va=YRc3q%4dtvgmBNr6!7=i(GVTTidzJX_)neighbors, everyone should support one another.
Last year, more t9JWobkc7dDDOU=M!#ndSPa)lAA7X!nXMCzq=x%O%TRyl+9)WUDhan 100,000 people took to the streets of Taipei for a pride parade that demanded marriage equality.
It came just a month before devastating referendum results showed the majority of Taiwan voters did not5O8A#JFc%R=Pvt7qh!_oBJexNQrPqSg0!8FII8NDzekLL$C3ic support same-sex marriage.
Despite the referendum result, parliament in May finally legalized same-sex marriage in line with a 2017 CoiB7)kgB9$dS#anfs)PyCGsan&u-eS&N71UYm9TEH!nT*^Osgyanstitutional Court ruling that failing to do so was unconstitutional.
This year, according to organizers, the LGBT rights movement has moved to the next stage and will fight against prejudice and stereotyping of LGBT peopcbkSOH4kvYO0s+n4cB5@YYaCkmJ43aJ4YriA589_yg&XIvtBShle.
